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| Friday, December 22, 2006 |
| OK, OK - 5 things you don't know about me... |
Lazy Man and Money and Single Ma have tagged me to reveal 5 things about myself that readers don't already know. Here we go:
Five things you don’t know about me:
1) I learned how to sail long before I learned how to drive. 2) I lived in Japan for three months and have visited numerous European countries, but have never been to Canada or Mexico. 3) I sometimes watch the Martha Stewart show, try one of those craft projects, get frustrated that mine never turn out like hers, declare I hate her, then start the whole process over again. Below is a jinglebell wreath I created and Martha's 4) I love peanut butter. 5) I believe chocolate chip cookies should only be baked from scratch using the recipe on the back of the tollhouse chocolate chips bag. If you use the store bought refrigerated dough you are “faking-it instead of baking-it”. Now I am suppose to tag five more people to pass this along... I will tap some of the folks who requested some link love from me (you still have until the end of today to get your request in - I will review the links this weekend). Randomly picked: Stingy Students, The Financial Ladder, An English Major's Money, and Thoughts and Riches - you have been tagged.
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Where did u live in Japan? I was there for 2 months in '03 for research in Tsukuba, 1 hr north of Tokyo. My highlight was climbing Mt Fuji. That and getting all my trip funded by the Nat' Science Foundation .. thought u might enjoy that money saving tactic.
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Oh you poor thing. That's a beautiful wreath! Martha aint got nuttin on all the luv you put into your home made creations. :-)
Oh yea, and I'm allergic to peanut butter.
Merry Christmas!
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I was thinking the same thing, single ma. That is indeed a good wreath.
Boston Gal, did you learn to sail at Community Boating on the Charles. I did that about 5 years ago for a summer and it was fantastic.
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I love PB too. Forget the bread and jelly, I just eat it straight out of the jar. Also, thanks for the mention, you must get a lot of traffic on your site because I'm getting just a fraction of yours, and it's a HUGE amount - at least for a bumbling blogger like myself.
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Hi Kathy,
I was in Niigata Prefecture in '85. Hours away from Tokyo by bullet train, it was a very rural community (rice paddy fields were everywhere). I was an exchange student - so spent three months (pretty much my summer holiday in high school) living with a local family while attending school there (they are still in school during our summer vacation).
I wish the National Science Foundation could have paid for my trip - I did that with my paper route money :)
Thank you Single Ma and Lazy Man for the compliments on my wreath. I think it looks better in the picture than in person. But it does jingle nicely whenever I open the door. :)
I learned to sail at a local yacht club. But I do love community sailing. But before I was ten I had my own boat and had the whole of Boston Harbor to explore (not just the Charles!) Pretty heady stuff for a kid.
Glad to know there is a fellow peanut butter lover out there Stingy Student. But I have matured to using a stalk of celery to scoop the peanut butter out of the jar - that way I am not double dipping with a spoon :)
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Re: Tollhouse cookies - I agree completely, and will add one more caveat - if you are going to call them Tollhouse cookies, you ought to be using Nestle Tollhouse semi-sweet chips (and the recipe on the back). I remember being a kid and my mom buying the ersatz supermarket brand and I could tell the difference. I told her she better not call them Tollhouse cookies, because they weren't (I didn't become this obnoxious overnight). Hard to believe with that level of AR that I grew up to surround myself by engineers, huh?
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Hi Travelin' Man,
I laughed when I read your comment! So glad there is another Tollhouse fanatic out there (by the way I am only this AR with Tollhouse cookies - sugar cookies, etc. I could care less - but please don't mess with my beloved chocolate chip cookies). And you are correct - I should have stipulated only Nestles Tollhouse Semi-Sweet morsels please!
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Chocolate chips? Peanut Butter? I'm getting hungry for a Reese Peanut Butter Cup...
I don't understand the refrigerated dough. It's so much better to make them from scratch. They're drop cookies and it doesn't matter if they're perfect as long as they taste good. And what's not too like about egg, sugar, vanilla, chocolate and flour?
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Where did u live in Japan? I was there for 2 months in '03 for research in Tsukuba, 1 hr north of Tokyo. My highlight was climbing Mt Fuji. That and getting all my trip funded by the Nat' Science Foundation .. thought u might enjoy that money saving tactic.